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Monastic Communities and Canonical Clergy in the Carolingian World (780–840)
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Monastic Communities and Canonical Clergy in the Carolingian World (780–840) show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Monastic Communities and Canonical Clergy in the Carolingian World (780–840)In the years 816-819, a series of councils was held at the imperial palace in Aachen. The goal of the meetings was to settle a number of questions about ecclesiastical organization. These issues were hotly debated throughout the Christian Roman Empire of the fourth and fifth centuries, and then reinvigorated by the renewal of empire under Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious. At the centre of the ensuing debate stood the distinction between monks and monastic communities on the one hand, and the so-called clerici canonici and their communities on the other. Many other reforms were proposed in its wake: the position of the episcopacy needed to be renegotiated, the role of the imperial court needed to be consolidated, and the place of every Christian within the renewed Carolingian Church needed to be redefined. What started out as a seemingly straightforward reorganisation of the religious communities that dotted the Frankish ecclesiastical landscape thus quickly turned into a broad movement that necessitated an almost complete categorization of the orders of the Church. The contributions to this volume each zoom in on various aspects of these negotiations: their prehistory, their implementation, and their influence. In doing so, previously held assumptions about the scope, the goals, and the impact of the ‘Carolingian Church Reforms’ will also be re-assessed.
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Medieval Art at the Intersection of Visuality and Material Culture
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Medieval Art at the Intersection of Visuality and Material Culture show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Medieval Art at the Intersection of Visuality and Material CultureOver the last two decades the historiography of medieval art has been defined by two seemingly contradictory trends: a focus on questions of visuality, and more recently an emphasis on materiality. The latter, which has encouraged multi-sensorial approaches to medieval art, has come to be perceived as a counterpoint to the study of visuality as defined in ocularcentric terms.
Bringing together specialists from different areas of art history, this book grapples with this dialectic and poses new avenues for reconciling these two opposing tendencies. The essays in this volume demonstrate the necessity of returning to questions of visuality, taking into account the insights gained from the ‘material turn’. They highlight conceptions of vision that attribute a haptic quality to the act of seeing and draw on bodily perception to shed new light on visuality in the Middle Ages.
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Memory and Recollection in the Aristotelian Tradition
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:Memory and Recollection in the Aristotelian Tradition show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: Memory and Recollection in the Aristotelian TraditionAristotle’s De memoria et reminiscentia (‘On Memory and Recollection’) is the oldest surviving systematic study of the nature of human memory. Forming part of Aristotle’s other minor writings on psychology that were intended as a supplement to his De anima (‘On the Soul’) and known under the collective title Parva naturalia, Aristotle’s De memoria et reminiscentia gave rise to a vast number of commentaries in the Middle Ages. The present volume offers new knowledge on the ancient and medieval understanding of Aristotle’s theories on memory and recollection across the linguistic borders and philosophical traditions in the Byzantine Greek, Latin, and Arabic reception.
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The Medieval Dominicans
show More to view fulltext, buy and share links for:The Medieval Dominicans show Less to hide fulltext, buy and share links for: The Medieval DominicansThe Order of Preachers has famously bred some of the leading intellectual lights of the Middle Ages. While Dominican achievements in theology, philosophy, languages, law, and sciences have attracted much scholarly interest, their significant engagement with liturgy, the visual arts, and music remains relatively unexplored. These aspects and their manifold interconnections form the focal point of this interdisciplinary volume.
The different chapters examine how early Dominicans positioned themselves and interacted with their local communities, where they drew their influences from, and what impact the new Order had on various aspects of medieval life. The contributors to this volume address issues as diverse as the making and illustrating of books, services for a king, the disposition of liturgical space, the creation of new liturgies, and a Dominican-made music treatise. In doing so, they seek to shed light on the actions and interactions of medieval Dominicans in the first centuries of the Order’s existence.
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